New to metabolic medicine? Looking for a practical, accessible introduction?

The Royal Children’s Hospital Education Hub and the Metabolic Medicine Team are excited to bring you an education day to build confidence in recognising inherited metabolic disorders and understanding key principles in their management. You’ll leave with a clearer understanding, practical tools, and increased confidence to support children where a metabolic diagnosis may be present or emerging.

This program is being recorded and the recording will be available for 90 days.

Date: Thursday, 22nd October 2026

Time: 8.30am to 4.00pm

Where: Ella Latham Auditorium, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, 50 Flemington Rd Parkville, VIC 3052 & via Zoom

Intended audience: This course is ideal for health professionals who are early in their exposure to metabolic medicine or may encounter metabolic conditions in clinical practice, including paediatricians, trainees, emergency medicine clinicians, nurses and dietitians.   

Course outline:

• When to consider a metabolic diagnosis
• The newborn screening program 
• Choosing appropriate investigations
• Recognising and managing metabolic emergencies
• Understanding how specialist metabolic teams support care
• The lived experience of families

Cost:  

Onsite: $220 incl GST

Enrolment closes at 12 noon on Tuesday 20th October. Onsite registration fees include morning tea, lunch and onsite parking.

Virtual: $165 incl GST

Enrolments made after 12 noon on Tuesday 20th October will not receive an email with the Zoom link. The link will be available in the course page at least two days prior to the session.

CPD Points: 6 hours of education activities towards your CPD log. 

Important: After enrolling in this course, you will receive email communications, please check your Junk/Spam folder. 

Mode of delivery: Onsite & Virtual

Contact: education.hub@rch.org.au

Refund eligibility: Eligible within a given time period as specified in section 8.2 of our Terms of Use

Course administrator: Carolyn van Heerden and Danica Van Den Dungen